Rug and method of making it.



M. J. WHITTALL.

RUG AND METHOD OF MAKING IT.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 2, 1913.

Patented Dec. 30, 1913.

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MATTHEW J'. WHITTALL, OF WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

RUG AND METHOD OF MAKING IT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. so, 1913.

Application filed July 2, 1913. Serial No. 776,926.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MATTHEW J. VVHIT- TALL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Worcester, in the county ofWorcest-er and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Bugs and Methods of Making Them, of which the following is a specification. This invention relates to rugs and to a method of making that class of rugs having separately formed fringe secured to the ends thereof. In the manufacture of this type'of rug it is customary to weave a plain end portion or heading upon the rug, this heading being afterward turned back and stitched or secured under the body of the rug in the finished article. Owing to the heavy stiff nature of the heading it has been found difiicult to turn it closely under the body of the rug and to secure it smoothly thereto.

It is the object of my invention to provide a construction in which a close, smooth turn in the heading may be readily made.

With this object in view my invention contemplates the production of a rug in which the fringe is permanently secured to the body portion by proper manipulation of the warp threads during the weaving process, and in which the heading portion is so woven that it may more readily be turned under and secured to the body of the rug.

To the accomplishment of the objects of the invention above indicated the invention comprises the methods and combinations of parts hereinafter described and particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

A preferred form of my invention is disclosed in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of a partially completed rug showing the first step in the process of securing the fringe thereto; Fig. 2 is a top plan view of a portion of the rug shown in Fig. 1; Figs. 3 and 4 are side elevations similar to Fig. 1 and showing successive steps in the process of securing the fringe to the rug; Fig. 5 is a top plan view illustrating my method of producing fringed rugs in multiple; Fig. 6 is an enlarged plan view of a portion of two of the rugs shown in Fig. 5; Figs. 7 and 8 are respectively a partial plan and side elevation of a comstrip of previously pleted rug; and Fig. 9 is a detail showing the method of weaving the heading.

In the embodiment of my invention herein illustrated the fringe is shown attached to a rug having a cut pile fabric, commonly known as a Wilton rug. The warp used in the production of such rugs comprises a plurality of soft colored yarn or pile threads indicated at 10 and a plurality of binding or chain warp threads indicated at 11 and 12. The reference numeral 11 is used to indicate the chain warp threads in the lower shed in Fig. 1, while the numeral 12 indicates the corresponding threads in the upper shed.

A rug embodying my invention is woven in the usual manner and provided with the usual pile 13 until the full length of the pile portion of the rug has been manufactured.

The loom is then stopped and the harnesses are manipulated until one set of chain warp threads, such as 12, are in the upper shed, while the remaining warp threads are in the lower shed as shown in Fig. 1. VVit-h the warp threads in this position a formed fringe 14: is placed between the sheds as also shown in Fig. 1, the fringe being provided with a binding'15 on one edge thereof. The fringe having been placed bet-ween the sheds, the separate loops 16 thereof are drawn up wardly between the warp threads into the position shown in Fig. 3. The loom is then caused to move the harnesses in such a way as to carry the warp threads into the posi tion shown in Fig. 4, in which the threads 12 become the lower shed while the threads 10 and 11 constitute the upper shed. At the same time a plurality of picks of filling 17 is inserted between the warp threads. This filling 17 serves to bind the fringe closely to the body portion of the rug. The loom may then be started in regular operation to weave the plain heading 18 at the end of the rug.

In the usual process of manufacture these rugs are produced in multiple, and a suificlent amount of heading is woven to finish the adjacent ends of the two rugs as shown in Figs. 5 and 6. When this heading has been woven a second strip of fringe 14 is inserted in the same manner as previously described, except that the loops of the fringe will. extend in the reverse direction. The pile body portion of the second rug is then woven a-ndthis process may be repeated as many times as desired. After the rugs are removed from the loom they are severed along the line indicated at 19 in Figs. 5 and 6, and the portion of the heading attached to each rug is turned under the body portion of the rug as shown in Fig. 8, and may be secured thereto by stitching or by other suitable ]neans. As commonly made this plain heading is of considerable thickness and is so stiff that a smooth close turn of the heading under the rug is difficult to secure. To remedy this difficulty I have devised the method of weaving the heading which is dis closed in Fig. 9 and which I will now describe. After the two picks of filling 17 shown in Fig. 4 have been inserted to bind the fringe I cause the loom to be operated for a series of picks without inserting filling between the warp threads. The number of picks omitted is usually five, but the operation of the loom in beating up the filling 20 thereafter inserted causes the filling to be forced partially into the space which would have been filled by the omitted filling, so that the break between the filling 17 and the filling 20 does not correspond fully to the feed of the warp during the five omitted picks. A sufficient break is left in the heading, however, so that it may be readily bent at this point and a smooth, close turn under the body of the rug is thereby as ,sured. The advantages of this method of weaving the heading is not confined to the manufacture of fringed rugs, but may be utilized in making any rug in which a heavy plain heading 1s turned under the body portion.

It is evident that many modifications of the article herein disclosed and the method of making the same may be made by one skilled in the art without departing from the spirit of my invention, and I do not wish to be limited to the precise details of the present disclosure, but

What I do claim is 1. A rug having in combination a body portion and a heading, all of the warp threads being continuous through the body portion and the heading, but certain successive filling threads being omitted in the heading, whereby the heading may be closely drawn under the body portion.

2. A rug having in combination a body portion, a fringe having a binding separate from the rug and wholly secured to said body portion by certain of the warp threads, and a plain heading woven beyond the fringe and having certain successive filling threads omitted whereby the heading may be closely turned beneath the body portion.

8. The method of making rugs which consists in weaving the body portion on a loom, then operating the loom for a plurality of picks without inserting filling threads, thereafter weaving a plain heading upon the rug, turning the heading beneath the body portion of the'rug, and securing it thereto.

4. The method of making fringed rugs, which consists in weaving the body portion of the rug on a loom, securing a fringe there-' to by binding it between the sheds of the warp, thereafter operatin the loom for a plurality of successive picks without insertfilling threads, thereafter weaving a plain heading upon the rug, turning the heading beneath the body portion, and securing the same thereto.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

MATTH W J. WHITTALL.

WVitnesses \VIL AnD E. BALLOU, JOHN C. WAR

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